(UPDATE) New york — Jalen Brunson had 42 points, nine assists and eight rebounds, and the New York Knicks outlasted the Denver Nuggets, 134-127, in two overtimes wednesday (thursday in manila) for their eighth straight victory.
Karl-Anthony Towns added 24 points and 12 rebounds while playing with a bandage over his right eye after he was bloodied in a head-to-head collision in the first quarter. He fouled out in the first overtime, but Brunson took over with 10 points in the second extra period.
Jamal Murray scored 39 points for the nuggets, while nikoka jokic had 30 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists in his first triple-double since returning from a knee injury last week. Denver lost its third straight, having fallen to conference leaders oklahoma city and detroit in his previous two games.
The knicks had won by an average of 24.7 points during their winning streak before wednesday’s thriller in which neither team led by double digits. Og anunoby scored 20 points.
The nuggets lost starting forwards peyton watson and spencer jones to injuries during the game, with watson limping off in the fourth quarter with an apparent right leg injury.
The knicks appeared to have it won in the first overtime when murray was short on a 3-point attempt in the last second. But officials whistled mikal bridges for a loose-ball foul against christian braun that review showed came before the clock expired. Braun hit the two free throws with 0.3 seconds left to tie it at 119.
Brunson then scored the first six points of the second ot.
Bucks 141, Pelicans 137 (ot)
In milwaukee, ryan rollins scored 27 points and the milwaukee bucks withstood a brilliant performance from trey murphy iii to beat the new orleans pelicans, 141-137, in overtime.
Murphy scored a career-high 44 points and shot 12 of 19 from 3-point range. His 12 3-pointers matched the fifth-highest, single-game total in nba history. The single-game record belongs to klay thompson, who had 14 for golden state against chicago on oct. 29, 2018.
The teams shot a combined 45 of 93 from 3-point range, with new orleans 24 of 46 and milwaukee 21 of 47. The bucks shot a season-best 60.9-percent overall.
The bucks pulled ahead for good by scoring the first five points of overtime, on a rollins driving layup and a myles turner 3-pointer. New orleans trailed 139-137 when zion williamson was called for an offensive foul just before saddiq bey hit a 3-pointer that would have put the pelicans ahead with 6.5 seconds left in overtime.
Milwaukee’s kevin porter jr. Then hit two free throws with 5.2 seconds remaining. Porter had 18 points, nine assists and six rebounds in his return after missing six game with an oblique strain.
Aj green scored 20 points for milwaukee. Bey had 22 points and williamson 20 for new orleans.
Milwaukee appeared to take the lead on myles turner’s tiebreaking corner 3-pointer with 5.5 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, but a replay review determined his left heel was out of bounds before he took the shot.
T-wolves 128, Raptors 126
In toronto, anthony edwards scored 13 of his 30 points in the fourth quarter, bones hyland had 20 points and the minnesota timberwolves overcame an 18-point deficit to beat the toronto raptors.
Minnesota won in toronto for the first time since jan. 21, 2004. The timberwolves’ previous road win in the series came feb. 14, 2021, when the raptors were playing in tampa because of the covid-19 pandemic.
Jaden mcdaniels scored 19 points, naz reid and julius randle each had 17 and donte divincenzo added 15 as the timberwolves won for the fifth time in six games.
Rudy gobert had 10 points and 12 rebounds as the timberwolves improved to 14-5 against eastern conference opponents.
Brandon ingram scored 25 points, immanuel quickley had 23 and scottie barnes had 22 points and 10 rebounds for the raptors.
Ingram hit a 3-pointer at the buzzer, but toronto lost for the fourth time in its past five home games.
Sandro mamukelashvili scored 14 points for toronto. Rj barrett and collin murray-boyles each had 13.